Package-roll for holding and applying metallic leaf.



No. 668,575. Patented Feb. l9, [90L W. H. 60E. PACKAGE BULL FOR HOLDING AND. APPLYING METALLIC LEAF (Appliation'flled Feb. 21, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER H. COE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

PACKAGE-ROLL FOR HOLDING AND APPLYING METALLIC LEAF.

v SPEGIFIGA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No. 668,575, dated February 19, 1901.

Application filed February 21, 1899. Serial No. 706.391. (No model.)

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In the employment of package-rolls for holding and applying metallic leaf for outdoor decoration, and especially in rolls of considerable width, it is desirable to have the film of metallic leaf slightly held to the surface of the supporting-strip; but when attached, as heretofore, by the employment of a coating of wax or similar adhesive material applied to the entire surface at one side of the strip it is found in practice that the variable atmospheric conditions which occur during the process of winding the package rolls in the factory cause an injurious change in the quantity of adhesive material deposited upon the strip, whereby the film will .not be suitably attached thereto for transfer to the outdoor surfaces to be decorated, being eitb er too strongly or too lightly attached to the strip. A slight change in the consistency of the wax, due to commercial adulteration, will also serve to cause a great change in its'adhesive quality. I have been able to overcome these defects and to employ wax of varying grades as the attaching material in the formation of the package-rolls without injuriously affecting the attachment of themetallic leaf to the supporting-strip; and my invention consists in depositing the wax upon the supporting-strip in a series of narrow longitudinal lines, with unwaxed spaces at the opposite sides of the waxed lines, at which spaces the film will not be attached to the supporting-strip. I am thus enabled to connect the film to the supporting-strip at all required portions of its width for practical purposes in outdoor work with the employment of a much less quantity of wax or other adhesive material, and also to provide longitudinal unattached spaces for the entrance of air longitudinally of the film to facilitate the withdrawal of the film from the strip and its transference to the surface to be decorated, and in forming this improved package-roll I am enabled to deposit the metallic leaf smoothly upon the supporting-strip with greater certainty and precision and with greater facility than heretofore, and to transfer it with greater facility to the surface to be decorated.

- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represent-s an end view of a package-roll composed of metallic leaf and a supportingstrip of paper, the metallic leaf being indicated by the dotted line. Fig. 2 represents a side view of the package-roll with the supporting-strip partially unwound, showing the surface of the unwound film of metallic leaf and the series of longitudinal lines of wax coating arranged upon the surface of the unwound supporting-strip.

In the drawings, A represents the improved package-roll of metallic leaf which is adapted for the ready transfer of the metallic leaf 7 therein contained to the surface to be decorated' B is the core upon which the film of metallic leaf 0 and the supporting-paper strip D are wound, the said core being provided with the axial perforation E, by means of which it may 7 be held for rotation while the strip and film are being unwouhd from the package-roll. The paper strip D is provided at one side with a series of parallel longitudinal lines of wax a a a, deposited upon the surface of the strip so as to cause the adhesion of the metallic leaf not throughout its whole extent, but with the spaces 1) b of non-attachment at the opposite sides of the waxed lines, whereby the air will be readily allowed to enter in a longitudinal direction between the film and strip at the spaces b b and have access to the edges of the waxed lines when the film is being deposited therefrom upon the surface to be decorated. My improvement is therefore especially adapted for employment in packagerolls of the wider widths for outdoor decoration, where the film of metallic leaf upon the surface of the strip is liable to be aifected by the action of the wind, and by varying the number and width of the waxed lines the attachment of the film to the strip may be adjusted to the special requirements of the decorative work to be accomplished.

I claim as my invention A package-roll of metallic leaf, consisting of a wound supporting-strip, and a film of surface may be regulated in accordance with the special requirements of the decorative work.

WALTER I-I. COE.

SOORATES SCHOLFIELD,

Witnesses: l EVERETT W. CHURCH. 

